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  • Aug 28, 2024 | kveller.com | Sasha Vasilyuk

    I was seven months pregnant when my husband and I moved to Berlin. We were there for work reasons – his, not mine. My main job was to find a gynecologist, pick a hospital to give birth at and rent an apartment suitable for a young couple with a baby. While I worked on figuring out our future, however, Berlin was forcing me to confront my past. I had been apprehensive about moving there. Having grown up in Ukraine and Russia, I had been taught to resent the German capital for launching World War II.

  • Jun 22, 2024 | jpost.com | Paul Goldberg |Sasha Vasilyuk

    Your Presence Is Mandatory begins at a Red Army outpost on June 22, 1941, at the start of the German invasion of the USSR, and concludes in war-torn Donetsk, Ukraine, in August 2015, at the outset of another war. In an especially powerful scene tucked into this debut novel, 12-year-old Masha is playing cards with Yefim Shulman, her war veteran grandfather. They are playing durak, a popular game among people of Russian culture.

  • May 2, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Sasha Vasilyuk

    If one word could sum up Sasha Vasilyuk’s debut novel, Your Presence Is Mandatory, it might be “distressing.” This is, after all, a story set in Eastern Europe from 1941 to 2015, and in it, the horrors of World War II and its aftermath in the Soviet Union are neither romanticized nor softened. At the heart of the story is a lie. It’s 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the Soviet Union and bombed Kyiv.

  • Apr 27, 2024 | la-razon.com | Erika Ibáñez |La Paz |Yuri Flores |Sasha Vasilyuk

    Una oficina de Impuestos Internos. Foto: ArchivoLa Paz / 27 de abril de 2024 / 09:15El padrón de contribuyentes de Impuestos Nacionales creció en un 5,3% hasta diciembre del año pasado respecto de la gestión 2022, informó el presidente de la entidad recaudadora estatal, Mario Cazón. Según la Memoria Institucional 2023 que presentó el ejecutivo, el universo de contribuyentes, con obligaciones tributarias vigentes, al cierre de la gestión 2023, alcanzó a 490.628 personas.

  • Apr 27, 2024 | la-razon.com | Sasha Vasilyuk |Carlos Carrasco |Yuri Flores |Boris Góngora

    En enero de 2022, estaba planeando un viaje de verano a Ucrania y Rusia para mi hijo de cuatro años y para mí. Pasé la mitad de mi infancia en Ucrania y la otra mitad en Rusia antes de mudarme a los Estados Unidos cuando era adolescente. Cuando me convertí en madre, mi único y obsesivo objetivo era enseñarle ruso a mi hijo. Luego, después de unas vacaciones navideñas con su abuela estadounidense, me habló en inglés. Entré en pánico. Decidí que necesitaba una inmersión total lo antes posible.

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